Romana Londi is an Italian-Irish artist, born in 1985 in Rome (Italy), where she lives and works.
Since graduating from Central St Martins in London in 2009, Romana Londi has developed a unique approach to painting that is rooted in experimentation beyond simple representation to explore the immediacy of life, fusing conflicting realities in hybrid works. Her early practices which include the recto-verso series Happenstance - painted simultaneously on both sides of un-primed canvas - and the colour-changing series, Sentient, Blushing (Pink as Fuck) and Jetlag.
For all these signature series, Londi used photochromic mediums which responds to the changing intensity of sunlight and shifting shadows. These sentient (rather then merely representational) works are concerned with new materialism, the immediacy of life - with the interplay between presence and absence - absorbing and manifesting their surroundings as sites for transformation. Her latest series Jetlag, started in 2018, is conceptualised as the hangover of The Great Acceleration - a musing on the role of the body in the post-industrial, digital world with all its potential and failures.
Her work has already been included in major group exhibitions such as Planet B, Climate Change And The New Sublime at the Palazzo Bollani in Venice (Italy), 'I am the Beat', Desire Nights at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (Ireland), Memory Shop at the Casa Wabi Foundation in Oaxaca (Mexico), Gaia Has a Thousand Names at the Elgiz Museum in Istanbul (Turkey) and Mademoiselle at CRAC Occitanie in Sète (France).
Romana Londi has been working as an artist since 2009, and her works can be found in numerous private collections in Italy, France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
In 2024, she benefits from a solo exhibition WHAT IS YOUR SUBSTANCE, WHEREOF ARE YOU MADE (that millions of strange shadows on you tend) at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Brussels (Belgium).